YouTube videos show Candlestick brawls

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Videos of altercations at Saturday’s 49ers-Raiders preseason game have started to pop up on YouTube. They show chaotic scenes of fans of both teams brawling in the stands and in the parking lots. A warning: these videos contain scenes of people fighting, cursing and using a racial epithet.

One video, uploaded by vfratus23, starts with a man wearing a 49ers jacket throwing a punch at a man who appears to be wearing Raiders gear. Several other men join the fracas, and eventually another man in 49ers gear goes after the first 49ers fan.

Another video, uploaded by the same fan, shows several women fighting in the parking lot. They throw punches and pull hair, drawing a large crowd. The altercation leaves several people lying on the ground. At one point a passerby can be heard to ask, “Where the police at?”

We’ve reached out to the person who shot the videos. If we hear back from him, we’ll update this post.

Update: In an e-mail, vfratus said he didn’t know who started the fight in the stands. He was watching the game when he looked over and saw a brawl had broken out, he said. One of the participants ran away when he saw the police coming, and changed his shirt in an effort to fit in with the crowd. (It was not clear whether he succeeded.) The other participants in the first brawl were kicked out of the game, vfratus said.

The second video was taken by a friend of his, he said. The friend believed that the incident was gang-related.

“I myself was not impressed by how slow the cops and security came,” vfratus said. “The 49ers/Raiders/City of SF should be paying for cops on the field looking up at every section.”